This wikiHow teaches you how to allow contacts on your Favorites list to call you when you have Do Not Disturb enabled on your iPhone.

10 Second Summary

1. Open your iPhone's Phone app.
2. Tap Favorites.
3. Tap the + in the top left corner.
4. Tap on a contact, and select the phone number you want to favorite.
5. Open your iPhone's Settings.
6. Tap Do Not Disturb.
7. Tap Allow Calls From.
8. Select Favorites from the menu options.

Steps

Part 1

Adding Contacts to your Favorites

1

Open the Phone app. It's the green icon with a phone on it located on your home screen.

2

Tap Favorites. It's the button marked by a star at the bottom left corner of your screen.

3

Tap + at the top left of the screen.

4

Tap on a contact.

5

Select the phone number you want to favorite. If your contact has multiple phone numbers, you may only want to assign one number to the Favorites.

If you want to add multiple favorite contact methods, you must add them each one by one.

Part 2

Adding an Exception to your Do Not Disturb Settings

1

Open your iPhone's settings. The Settings app is the icon with gray cogs that appears on one of your home screens.

2

Tap Do Not Disturb.

3

Tap Allow Calls From.

4

Select Favorites. Doing so allows incoming calls from people on your Favorites list when Do Not Disturb is enabled.